Brewster High School Teacher and Southeast native, Rob Gallacher and his students have been around town cleaning the headstones and grass areas around the graves of of Military Veterans interred in Southeast in preparation for tomorrows annual Bob Palmer Day Project.
This will be the First Bob Palmer Project Day which is typically held on the last Saturday in April, since Bob passed on October 18, 2018 at 97 years old.
Robert Palmer was born in Brewster, New York in May 1921. Rob spent many years placing US Flags on veterans grave around town and in 2012 volunteers took over the task and now place hundreds of flags every year on veterans graves on “Bob Palmer Day”. Volunteers are encouraged to attend and assist the group with placing flags tomorrow.
Milltown Cemetery from 9am-10:30/11
St Lawrence Cemetery from 1:00pm-2:30/3
Bob Palmer served in the United States Army from August 1942 to December 1945, achieving the rank of Platoon Sergeant, commanding a sixteen-man gun section. During his service, Robert Palmer earned the American Service Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Service Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal.
Following his World War II service he joined the Railroad and retired after 41 years with Conrail.
Robert Palmer was a Life Member and had served for 20 years as Chaplain for the Brewster Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 672.
For the Past three decades he had categorized and placed over 1200 hundred flags on Veterans graves from Southeast- mostly by himself.
For more information visit the Bob Palmer Project Facebook Page.